Assumption Parish is welcoming you to become an Altar Server for our church services.

Altar serving is a ministry offered by Assumption Church to Catholic boys and girls in grades 4th through 8th grades. An altar server helps support tasks at the altar such as fetching and carrying, ringing the altar bell, helping bring up the gifts, bringing up the book, among other things. You don't have to be a parishioner of the Church of Assumption to be trained but we do ask that you are baptized Catholic and received your First Communion.

The 2-day training is on Thursdays below. Once trained, the new altar server will be scheduled for a Mass to train with the lead altar servers.

This form provides permission for students to participate in altar serving training set up by Assumption Parish altar server coordinators. By filling out this form and providing the electronic signature below, you are giving permission for Assumption School to release your student(s) to parent volunteers at the end of the school day, walk to the Church of the Assumption, and for your student to be trained by Assumption Parish altar server trainer at the Church of the Assumption.

This form also asks parents to pick up students promptly at 4:00 p.m. OR allows parent volunteers to walk students to our school's Extended Care if students are not picked up by 4:05 p.m. No student will be allowed to wait for parents by themselves on the church steps. Students who are allowed to walk home by the school (through registration or email to the school office) will be given permission to walk home after the training.

Interested families MUST sign up by filling out the attached form and permission. This provides permission for students to be escorted to the church by volunteers from school as well as participate in the training. Students MUST be picked up from the church by 4:00 p.m. or be escorted into Extended Care by a volunteer.

At the end of the training, students will receive a certificate of completion/renewal as well as be welcomed to altar serve on our school and weekend schedule.

If you have any questions, please contact Dennis Burigsay by email at [email protected] OR leave a message at (510) 895-1628.

November 10 and 17, 3:15 p.m. - 4 p.m.
January 19 and 26, 3:15 - 4 p.m.
February 9 and 16, 3:15 - 4 p.m.
March 16 and 23, 3:15 - 4 p.m.

Permission Form:

https://forms.gle/pBmx3zSZkFd8Y31D6

At the end of the training, students will receive a certificate of completion/renewal as well as be welcomed to altar serve on our school and weekend schedule.

PARENT HOURS ALERT: We need two - three parents to sign up to help supervise the altar server training for each day. Vaccination, LiveScan, and Virtus training requirements apply.

Parent volunteers will have a list of students who will gather at the flagpole, pass out name tags to students, and be walked over to the church (one parent in the front and one in the back). Then during the training, the volunteers will help supervise and redirect students as needed as a support to our parish volunteers who are in charge of the training. After the training, the volunteers will wait for pick up in front of the church and at 4:05 p.m. walk students to Extended Care for sign-in.

Altar Server Training offered for Assumption Parish

Assumption Parish is welcoming you to become an Altar Server for our church services.